In the Ubuntu version of gnome-terminal I'm seeing a weird problem with colors that I know is somehow related to gnome-terminal because this same setup works fine with iTerm2 on my Mac.
From terminal ...

I'm logged in as root to do some stuff, and i have Tmux open. The trouble is, when I type 'exit' to leave root, it instead closes Tmux, because they use the same command. Is there a way to switch back ...

Two answers in this question state that screen is unmaintained. However, the GNU repository of screen shows an upload this year after 6 years, and 14.04 has two newer versions than the earlier Ubuntu ...

I'm currently trying to use byobu from PuTTY via ssh. I have currently putty-256color as Terminal-type string because otherwise not even Byobu bindings worked and I couldn't create new windows or move ...

Twice now I have pressed something while in tmux that causes my windows and status bar to disappear. I see the output from the script that started the session, just like a foreground process that has ...

What I want to do is to run a script without having to de-attach myself manually. So at the moment I have a script let's say called tmuxScript.sh, every time I have to either use the previous session ...

What is the different between Tmux and Terminator? I currently use Terminator which allows me to add more shell in same screen by splitting them horizontally or vertically.
I read about them in some ...

When I load tmux, it goes straight into the #: prompt, and no aliases or nothing loads. I can barely even type regular commands like "source" because it says it's not found. However, when I execute ...

I recently installed Tmux and became really glad for it. All of a sudden I though it would start throwing an error when I try to create a new session from within my terminal:
tmux new -s my-session
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I have sets many shortcuts in .bashrc profile of local user, and they work properly. Currently on my 12.04 system but when ever I tried to used them in tmux, I always get the same response command not ...

I use ♪ character in my zsh theme's for prompt. But in tmux, my prompt was behaving weirdly, showing extra spaces, like this:
♪ ~ I can type from here
♪ ~ Instead of here like in zsh, and sometimes ...

I've been using tmux for a number of years, earlier today I thought I'd try byobu - to see what it's like. But now I can't get back to tmux. When I run tmux I end up back in boyobu. Does anyone know ...

Recently, I started using tmux; I'm trying to use the pair programming feature in that software.
During the process a socket file was created.
My question is: what are socket files, how am I to open ...

I am running Ubuntu-gnome 13.04. My default shell is zsh 5.0.0 and I usually run tmux 1.7 in the terminal 3.6.1.
In terminal, if I evince or gedit, the applications start as expected. I can append an ...

I may not be phrasing my question correctly, but I'll do my best to explain the symptoms I'm experiencing. First, for context, I'm running an Ubuntu server (no GUI), version 12.04.3 LTS (according the ...

I've become addicted to Byobu and I've recently shifted from bash to zsh; Now I want to combine the two, however I have a one initial pre-requisite:
I cannot make zsh the default shell for my user as ...

I just install tmux on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and it throws me this error when I try to use tab completion for simple commands like 'cd' or 'mv' in the /etc/bash_completion file.
command substitution: line ...

Let's say I have a byobu session running with multiple tabs open. Then if I open a new terminal, and start byobu, it will take me into the same session. If I then switch byobu tabs in one terminal, ...